What is the setting in relation to the plot in Katherine Mansfield's ''The Garden Party''?

The setting of "The Garden Party" begins at Laura's home
and shifts to the neighborhood and home of the dead man's widow. When the story opens in
medias res (or res in medias), Laura is making preparations for a garden party and
greeting workmen who have come to carry out the details of the arrangements. The house
and garden are the elegant living places of the wealthy Sheridan family and connected to
an accidental killing of a young carter who left a young widow behind him. It is this
accidentally event that forms the main conflict of the story because Laura feels the
moral impropriety of holding a party in the garden after a man lost his life. There is
an implied shift of scene as the party seems to carry on without narratorial comment
aside from scattered stream of consciousness remarks made by Laura that indicates the
fulfillment of the party.

Later, the setting changes to the
neighborhood and home of the young widow when Laura's mother insists that she remain in
her party clothes and go to deliver a platter full of party leftovers to the home of the
grieving young widow. Laura capitulates and goes on the journey down the lane to make
the delivery while still in her garden party dress and black hat. The lane leads Laura
to the cottage of the young man and his widow, which is surrounded by a mournful group
of people through whom Laura makes her way. Inside the cottage, the setting reveals
grieved characters and the body of the young man laid out looking peaceful and restful
in death. While looking at the young man, Laura has a flash of enlightenment, an
epiphany, and realizes how incongruous her presence is there amidst the trappings of
luxury, arrogant life, and garden parties. She exclaims, "Forgive my hat," the symbol of
all the incongruities, and leaves the cottage setting to reenter the lane where her
brother meets her, having come after her to give her encouragement. They share the
knowledge that life is an incongruence of having and not having as her brother says,
"Isn't it, darling?"

How are the two kings, Hamlet's dead father and Claudius, contrasted with one another throughout the play?

In addition to the superb answer above, King Hamlet
& the Ghost can be juxtaposed with Claudius in terms of their own language and
actions and not just on Hamlet's obviously biased
soliloquy.

Both have killed to gain or
maintain power. King Hamlet killed Old Fortinbras to gain lands in
Poland.  Claudius obviously kills King Hamlet to get the
throne.

Both loved Gertrude.
The Ghost tells Hamlet to leave her to heaven, and Claudius tries to get her to stop
drinking the poisoned chalice.

Both are
blind. King Hamlet was blind to his wife and brother's incest and
adultery.  Claudius is blind toward Hamlet and the effects of his incestuous and
murderous crimes on the state.

Both form
unnatural relationships. The Ghost, a supernatural being, elicits a
mortal (his son, no less) to carry out what he should do (haunt Claudius).  Claudius'
relationship with Gertrude is full of incest, adultery,
deceit.

Both want revenge.
King Hamlet wants revenge on Claudius, and Claudius wants revenge on Hamlet.  They both
incite Hamlet to enact revenge.

Both use
pawns as part of revenge. The Ghost uses Hamlet to carry out his plan,
while Claudius uses Polonius' family, R & G.  All of their pawns, by the way,
die.

King Hamlet (Ghost) will go to heaven,
and Claudius will go to hell. The former is a victim of immorality, while
the former is an agent of it.

The Ghost is a
better performer than Claudius. His lines are war-like, gothic,
menacing.  Claudius, especially at prayer, seems much weaker by
comparison.

the temperature & the pressureThe pressure in a constant-volume gas thermometer is 0.700 atm at 100 Celsius degree and 0.512 atm at 0 Celsius...

As the mass and volume of the gas in the thermometer is
constant, the change in pressure of the gas is directly proportional to the rise of
temperature. Stated in other words rise in pressure per degree rise in temperature is
constant.

Given:

Pressure at
100 degrees Celsius = 0.700 atm

Pressure at 0 degrees
Celsius = 0.512
atm

Therefore:

Rise in
pressure for 100 degrees rise in temperature = 0.700 0.512 = 0.188
atm

Therefore:

Rise in
temperature per degree Celsius rise in temperature = 0.188/100 = 0.00188
atm

Therefore:

Temperature in
Celsius corresponding to any pressure p is equal to:

t = (p
- p0)/(rise in pressure per degree Celsius temperature)

=
(p - 0.512)/0.00188

Therefore temperature corresponding to
pressure of 0.040:

= (0.040 - 0.512)/).00188 -
0.112/0.00188 = 59.57 degree Celsius.

Similarly, pressure p
in atm at any given temperature t is given by:

p = p0 +
t*(Rise in temperature per degree Celsius rise in
temperature)

= 0.512 +
t*0.00188

Therefore the pressure at 450 degree
Celsius:

= 0.512 + 450*0.00188 = 0.512 + 0.846 = 1.358
atm

To what extent is Captain John Smith a reliable narrator?Why does he write from a third-person point of view? What does he accomplish by this?

In many of the early accounts of life in the New World,
the reliability of the narrator often comes into question.  Much of this uncertainty
stems from the largely Eurocentric perspective of the accounts, particularly as it
relates to the clash of cultures between European settlers and the native inhabitants. 
As such, much of what is written during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries treats
the subject matter in a rather judgmental way, praising the "civilization" of the
European settlers and denigrating the "savagery" of the native
inhabitants.

John Smith's account of life in early
Virginia, written in the early part of the seventeenth century, does not reflect the
above tendency to a great extent; however, Smith appears to have been aware of the
possibility that his relationship to the events could affect how he discusses them. 
Being "too close" to the subject matter can affect the narrator's ability to strike a
balance in the narrative.  One way Smith seeks to avoid this is to remove himself as
much as possible from the narrative, deciding on third-person narration rather than the
more common first-person format.  The third-person perspective gives Smith's account a
greater air of legitimacy - as if he is merely an observer to the events
described.

The question remains:  What does Smith
accomplish with this narrative technique?  In using third-person, Smith's account
appears more balanced to the reader.  Not only does Smith seem to remove himself from
the events as much as possible, but he also manages to make the account more relatable
to other accounts of the region from the same time.  While the account is that of
Smith's own experience, it is an account that connects with other accounts of the
period; it is not too personal an account.

Should the arline industry accept any blame for the success of the 9/11 attacks?

I think the ext to which airlines industry  can be blamed
for the 9/11 attack, is no more than the extent to which a brick, which has been used to
hit a person, can be blamed for hurting the person. But the the brick is an inanimate
object, while airlines industry is an organization of people, and it would be great
folly for those men from airlines industry to not to accept the responsibility for
preventing such possibilities in future.

I cannot say that
airlines industry has now made it absolutely impossible for terrorist to use air travel
to perpetuate terrorism in any way, but they appear to have accepted their
responsibility to prevent terrorism and are taking many positive actions to curb use of
airlines for terrorism.

What are the main themes in the play " I will Marry When I Want" by Ngugi wa Thiong'o ?

The author Thiong'o is a distinguished professor of
comparative literature at the University of California, Irvine. He is also a known
theorist and author. When he wrote this particular play, it caused quite a bit of
controversy because it pointed out the poor living conditions of the common people in
Kenya. 

The play weaves his interpretation of the living
conditions and culture clashes of post-independence Kenya, when land and wealth were
supposed to be returned to the indigenous people, into a somewhat comedic story about a
family struggling to keep their home and land. Although told as a story about this
family, the author focuses on the political stories throughout the play so that the main
themes stem from this aspect.

The main themes are betrayal
and conflict based on the conflict between commoners and those in charge. The indigenous
commoners were betrayed by those in charge and seemed to have less after British rule
ended than they did before when the opposite was supposed to be the case. Conflict arose
as some of the Africans joined the "Homeguard", siding with the European interests and
took action against fellow Africans. 

In "The Fall of the House of Usher," what does Roderick symbolize?

When considering symbolism in Gothic Literature
(especially Edgar Allan Poe) I think it is safe to say the following ideas are probably
represented somewhere:

- darkness (physical, mental,
emotional, moral)
- evil
-
secrecy

Consider Roderick's
characteristics:

- hypochondriac and disorder of heightened
senses
- artistic
- keeps to himself
- generally kind but
clearly hiding something

I think it would be safe to argue
that he is symbolic of a family secret, an evil.  Most probably interpret it as incest. 
He is the last of the Usher line, which means the secret dies with
him.

In what way is Romeo accidently responsible for Mercutio's death?

I think Romeo's choosing to keep his secret about why he
won't fight with Tybalt is most at fault for Mercutio's death. Romeo makes a great point
to Tybalt that he loves him, but never gets out WHY! This would have helped considerably
under the circumstances.

This appeared to Mercutio as
weakness in Romeo and he went after Tybalt then in defense of his friend, Romeo. Tybalt
wasn't about to take that and it resulted in a cheap shot to
Mercutio.

Obviously Romeo never intended for this to
happen, but he certainly had the ability to have prevented the situation by just letting
everyone know there is a new relationship brewing that would drive the families
together.

What is the function of the letter in the third part, first chapter, of The Underdogs? Cual es la funcion de las cartas en la tercera pate de The...

The function of the letter from Luis Cervantes to Venancio
in Part 3, Chapter 1, of The Underdogs serves the function of
pointing out the alternatives to fighting and the futility of unreasoned choices.
Cervantes suggests the irrationality that underpins the peasants unreasoning devotion to
the revolution when he expresses in his letter that he is not surprised that Pancracio
and Manteca killed each other something so banal, so trivial, as gambling. In
juxtaposition to this he draws a picture of hope and luxurious nurturing life by
suggesting they open a restaurant in the United
States.

Additionally, it causes the revolutionaries to
begin to question and reason since they know that the Federation they began the fight to
oppose has been defeated. In juxtaposition to this stands the suggestion of the decaying
futility of  unreasoned actions once set in motion. This idea is highlighted by the
comparison in The Underdogs between Demetrio--who has a peasants
unreasoned for the revolution--and Navera--who has a knowledgeable commitment to the
facts and ideology of the revolution.

Using the walking stick as an example, how does Sherlock Holmes work? How could this process help him solve a crime?

What Holmes does is he looks at something like the walking
stick and tries to figure out as much as he can from
it.

For example, he figures out that the owner of the stick
has a dog because there are tooth marks in the stick.  He determines that the dog is not
all that big because it has to grip the stick tightly to carry it (deep tooth marks). 
He figures out what general size of dog it is from how far apart the tooth marks
are.

This kind of reasoning can help him figure out who
committed a crime because it allows him to get a lot of information from a very small
clue.

How did the Korean War affect the 1952 presidential election?

In my opinion, the major impact of the Korean War came
because people were simply tired of that war.  That helped defeat Adlai Stevenson
because he was too connected to President Truman in people's
minds.

Because people were tired of the war, they wanted it
to be over with.  They equated Stevenson with Truman, who had not been able to bring the
war to an end.  They thought that Eisenhower would be more assertive and would get the
war over with one way or another.

Ike helped make people
think that by promising to go to Korea if elected -- this made it seem like he had some
sort of plan without him having to say what that plan
was.

Although Dwight D. Eisenhower might well have won the
1952 election without the Korean War, that war helped him be more certain of victory. 
The stalemate in the war and Eisenhower’s credibility as a hero from World War II helped
to seal his victory.

By 1952, the war in Korea had become a
stalemate.  As such, it had become rather unpopular in the United States.  Eisenhower
used the people’s unhappiness over the war to his benefit.  One of the major themes of
his campaign was that the Democrats had mishandled the war.  He charged that the
Democrats had not been sufficiently prepared for a war.  Because of that, he said, the
war had ended up in a stalemate.  He had credibility on such issues because of WWII.  He
promised to find a way to end the war if elected.  This, too, helped make him more
popular.

With Ike’s popularity, it is possible that he
would have won the election regardless.  The war in Korea, however, helped to make him
more popular and thereby helped to ensure his victory in 1952.

I need to create a Macbeth soundtrack, and I need a song for Act 3. If you can think of any songs, please give a quick description.It can be for...

Act III is a turning point.  Macbeth's taste for blood
worsens.  "Blood, they say, will have blood."  Macbeth consults the murderers.  They
kill Banquo, Macbeth's best friend, but not his son.  Fleance flees on horseback.
 Hecate and the witches plot Macbeth's fate.  McDuff and Malcolm loom as Macbeth's
nemeses.

Some suggestion for
your Macbeth Act III soundtrack:

"If
You Want Blood, You Got It" - AC/DC

"Shopping for Blood" -
Franz Ferdinand

"We Suck Young Blood" -
Radiohead

"My Best Friend" -
Weezer

"Wild Horses" - The Rolling
Stones

"Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses" -
U2

"Witchy Woman" - The
Eagles

"This is England" - The
Clash

"Murder by Number" - The
Police

What is Asagai's attitude toward Beneatha's hair straightening and career goals?

Asagai believes that Beneatha's hairstyle and even her
career goal demonstratethat she is assimilating into "white" culture and giving up her
African heritage.  Her choice to straighten her hair--in Asagai's view--means that she
is unhappy with her natural African features and that she wants to look like "everybody
else."  Beneatha's desire to be a doctor is not at first connected to helping people in
Africa; so he views her goal as trying to prove to the white man that she is just as
intelligent as he is.

In fairness to Beneatha, she was born
and raised in America; so one could argue that she is simply expressing her American
roots through her hair and career goal.  Asagai would have difficulty seeing her choices
as American and not as trying to be white because he is from Africa and has a very
opinionated view of what it means to be black.  Nonetheless, Asagai's influence on
Beneatha is powerful, and once she decides to be more "natural," she is happier with
herself and more stable in her decision-making.

Please explain the biography of James Hurst, the author of "The Scarlet Ibis."

James Hurst is sort of a one hit wonder. He began his
pursuit of success and fame by attending Juilliard in New York. Unfortunately music
wasn't really his talent. Well, maybe it was, but it takes great amount of talent, good
timing and a big break to make it in the industry.

Next he
turned to banking and spent time until 1984 working for Chase Manhattan Bank. Throughout
his years as a banker, he wrote on the side for pleasure. The Scarlet Ibis
was his only famed piece of writing that has now taken on its life in many
high school classrooms.

Many students wonder if the story
of Doodle is the story of his very own brother. It feels very autobiographical. However,
it is indeed a fictional piece.

In "A Good Man Is Hard To Find," why does the grandmother murmur"you are one of my own children" to the Misfit?"A Good Man Is Hard To Find" by...

In the context of O'Connor's story, "A Good Man is Hard to
Find," grace is something often undeserved, a force outside a character that generates
an epiphany.  The grandmother has such an epiphany and receives grace as suddenly looks
at the Misfit with a new perspective, seeing him as like unto herself.  At this point,
the grandmother becomes a good Christian as she reaches out to the Misfit.  After he
shoots her, the Misfit does recognize her transformation, for he
says,

'She
would have been a good woman...if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute
of her life.'

Significantly,
after being shot the religious number of three times,  she falls over her legs which are
crossed under her, symbolically like the crucified Christ, who died to save others. 
For, after turning down the road to error, the grandmother redeems herself from
the petty, materialistic life which she has been living.

Analyze and Explain the "Sun rising" poem by John Donne?

The Sun Rising is a monologue to the Sun, in which the
narrator both exalts it and insults bringing with it a lot of descriptive and emotive
language that gears towards the necessity of the Sun in the lives of individuals,
similarly as one needs love, God, or any other power that is higher than
us.

In this poem, he first asks the Sunlight, just entering
his room, to go away. Apparently he is in love and is sharing his bed with his lover,
and seeing the sun rising makes him realize that its time to leave the bed, and face the
day. He asks for it to go somewhere where he is needed: At hunting parties, in places
where people want it to be daylight. But he doesn't.

Then,
he praises the sun for being the alseeing eye that lights up the planet, how we
gravitate towards it due to its might, and he compares the brightness of the sun and the
intensity of its heat and power to the love he feels for his lover, saying that nothing
can shine like their love, her eyes, everything.

In terms
of form, this poem is highly exaggerated (hyperbolic). It is rich in metaphor and
simile, and it accentuates the main ideas of romance, passion, and love by comparing all
three to the heat, brightness, and pull of the son as a massive star. It is one of the
most famous poems of John Donne, and certainly one of the richest in
language.

Which country was the site of some of the worst natural disasters of the 20th century?

Post #1 correctly identifies Bangladesh as the country
that experienced the worst natural disaster of 20th century in terms of number of people
dead. In a cyclonic storm that hit Bangladesh in 1970 (which was East Pakistan at that
time), nearly 266,000 people died. In aftermath of this cyclone many more people died of
diseases. The total toll is thus estimated to be more than a million people. Another
major cyclone that struck Bangladesh in 1991 killed nearly 138,00
people.

Incidentally the second biggest natural disaster of
20th century was an earthquake in Noerth-Eastern China in 1976, that left nearly 240,000
people dead.

Describe Woody's journey in April 1946 in Farewell to Manzanar.Tell where he went, what he did, and whom he saw, and how he was treated.

In April 1946, Woody returns to his father's anscestral
home in Ka-ke, near the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Woody is a soldier, and part of the
American occupying forces in Japan. As a soldier, he imagines the silent resentment of
the people, who, he imagines, must consider him a traitor to his own. Because of this,
Woody actually dreads going to his father's home, but he figures he is "too close not to
visit." He is greeted by his father's aunt, Toyo, who must be around eighty years
old.

Toyo and the family receive Woody with joy, and
despite the fact that they have little, treat him like royalty. Woody's father had left
his home forty years before, and had lost contact with his family; they are delighted to
hear that he is still alive and living in California. With typical Japanese reserve,
they receive the gift of sugar Woody has brought graciously, a little embarrassed that
they have nothing to give in return. Although the house is large and kept scrupulously
clean, the rooms are almost empty, everything having been lost in the war. Toyo takes
Woody to what she says is his father's gravesite; when they had not heard from him in so
long, they had assumed he was dead, and had built a memorial to him. Ecstatic that her
nephew is not dead as presumed, she tells Woody,

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"There are...many relatives to meet. Everyone
will want to see Ko's
son."

Toyo shows Woody their
"immaculate rock garden," and, with consumate dignity, makes him a meal, which she
serves on "one of her few remaining treasures, a fine set of porcelain." Despite his
protests, she then gives him a delicate coverlet, and takes him to a room where he can
sleep. As he dozes, Woody senses a presence nearby, and he wakes to find Toyo sitting by
him, just gazing at him with intensity. She is crying, and quietly tells him that he
looks very much like his father. When Toyo leaves the room, Woody is overcome with "a
sadness both heavy and sweet." He has found a connection with his past and his ancestry
that he never fully appreciated, and resolves to ask his aunt tomorrow to share with him
her memories of his father, "everything (she) can remember" (Chapter
18).

What are the factors of Perception??

Perception is the process by which individuals organize
and interpret the signals received through their sensory organs to give meaning to their
environment. What we perceive is definitely influenced by the environment which
generates the signal received by sensory organs. But the same signals are not perceived
by all individuals in the same way. There are differences. As a matter of fact there may
be difference in the way an individual perceives the same object in the environment
under different conditions.

The factors that influence
perception include the characteristics of the perceiver, target perceived, and the
situation or context within which the perception takes
place.

Personal characteristics of individual like
attitudes, motives, interests, past experience and expectations impact his or her
perception. Then the characteristics of the object or the target being perceived also
influence the perception. But it is important to note that what the individual perceives
is not exact replica of the reality. The target consists of many constituent elements
and the way these are organised cause the individual to perceive some while leave out
the others. Similar the arrangements of the elements also tends to enlarge or shrink in
our mind the significance of different features of the target. The context within which
the perception takes place is also a very important determinant of how the physical
reality of the target will be perceived by the individual. Things like time at which an
object is seen, the location where it is seen, heat, light, and many other factors
influence perception.

What does the campfire in the forest represent? How is this fire different from other fires depicted in the novel?

I think that this fire represents a new life.  It
represents something that the men hope will be kindled and lit by the knowledge that is
inside their heads.

This fire is different from all of the
other fires in the story because it is the only one that is actually meant to help
people and to make life better.  All of the other fires in the story are meant to
destroy.  This fire is meant to comfort the men and help them to survive.  One image of
fire in our society is the comfortable fire that burns in a fireplace.  This fire is
that kind of fire.

What are examples from Larkin's poems that show they move particular to general and general to contemplative?

To answer this question properly would require a detailed
survey of all of Larkins' poems. For the moment, let's consider a few of the poems most
often anthologized.

"Church Going" is one example. This
poem begins with a highly particular situation: the speaker enters a country church
while he is biking through the countryside. After exploring the church and considering
the fate of churches (and, by implication, of religion in general) in an increasingly
irreligious age, he concludes that churches will never be abandoned
completely,

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Since someone will forever be
surprising

A hunger in himself to be more
serious,

And gravitating with it to this
ground,

Which, he once heard, was proper to grow wise
in,

If only that so many dead lie round. 
(59-63)

In this poem, then,
the movement is clearly from particular to general -- from the isolated bicyclist to the
unnamed "someone" who represents a deep-seated human desire for
wisdom.

The same pattern of moving from particular to
general is repeated in "MCMIV," which describes the eagerness of men to volunteer, in
1914, to take part in World War I. After describing the details of those days, the
speaker concludes, in the final stanza,

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Never such
innocence,

Never before or since, . .
.

.          .         .         
.

Never such innocence again (25-26,
32)

Here again, then, the
movement is clearly from particular experiences to a general
conclusion.

"Aubade," however, opens with a highly
particular situation and a highly personal
perspective:

I
work all day, and get half-drunk at night.

Waking at four
to soundless dark, I
stare.

Much of the
generalizing in this poem, interestingly, occurs in the middle section, as when the
speaker announces, "Death is no different whined at than withstood"
(40).

By the time the poem concludes, ten lines later,
Larkin has returned to mundane particulars:

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Work has to be
done.

Postmen like doctors go from house to house.
(49-50)

The structure of the
poem thus mimics the poem's topic, in which disturbing thoughts occur in the middle of
the night.

In another famous poem, "Explosion," almost the
entire poem is made up of particulars; Larkin leaves it to readers themselves to draw
their own general conclusions from the detailed particulars he
describes.

Finally, one other notable poem ("Sad Steps")
does indeed move from particular to general, since its final lines conclude by
mentioning

.
. . the strength and pain

Of being young; that it can't
come again,

But is for others undiminished somewhere.
(36-38)

If this very brief
survey of a few of Larkins' poems is any indication, it seems best to suggest that,
while some do move from particular to general, his poems move in ways that are
appropriate to the particular meanings of each specific work.

What are some foreshadowing and flashback moments?

In Chapter 1 when Pony is jumped by the Socs on his way
home from the movies, they ask him if he wants his hair cut off.  He will later get his
hair cut off because of a Soc (because he is there when Johnny kills Bob
Sheldon).

In Chapter 2, much of the second half of the
chapter is a flashback.  It is the part where Pony flashes back to what happened when
Johnny was beaten so badly by Bob and the other Socs.

Then
at the end of Chapter 2, the very last line could be called foreshadowing
too.

What did Julius Caesar accomplish in his life?

1.  He never lost a military
battle.

2.  His battle strategies are still considered so
efficient and effective that they are studied at U.S. military
academies.

3.  He rose from nothing to the highest position
in the world (at the time); not an easy task in a society that is largely based on
ancestry and wealth.

4.  He left such a positive legacy
with the Romans that his successors took his name, and even the leaders of Russia were
named after him (czar).

What does Scout mean: ''I know now what he was trying to do, but Atticus was only a man. It would take a woman to do that kind of work.''

This quote, at the very end of Chapter 13, follows a very
awkward conversation between Atticus and Scout.  Aunt Alexandra is in town, and
basically impresses upon her younger brother to talk to Scout (in particular) about
being a lady.  He never actually uses these words - but as he attempts to quote Aunt
Alexandra it is clear that this is what she
means.

Scout herself has no idea what Atticus is talking
about.  He uses Aunt Alexandra's words, "Not run-of-the-mill people," and "product of
several generations' gentle breeding."  It is clear Atticus himself doesn't buy into it,
and cannot sell the idea to Scout that she should be acting lady-like, wearing dresses,
learning manners, preparing to be a debutant one day,
etc.

In fact, Scout doesn't understand it until much later
(as she tells the story from an adult perspective) that it was impossible for Atticus to
guide Scout to becoming a young woman "of society."  It was really a mother's job and it
would take such a mother to role model it first and teach it that
way.

Was the Cold War a necessary conflict or was the fear of Communism an excuse for the U.S. to become a global superpower?

The US could have been whatever it wanted to be after
WWII.  It was going to be a global superpower no matter what.  I do not think that the
fear of communism was used as a cover for US imperialism.  After all, we had not needed
any such cover earlier when we took places like Hawaii and the Philippines as US
possessions.

To me, communism is only benign as we look
back in hindsight.  The communist ideology clearly says that revolution is going to
occur across the world and many communists thought that the Soviet Union should help
bring that about.  The Soviet Union was also very much in a position to harm US allies
in Western Europe.

Communism now seems like a harmless
thing, but it didn't look that way in 1950, for example, as China became communist, the
USSR had the bomb, and North Korea invaded South Korea.

Pausch describes his cancer as "an engineering problem." How or why is this a helpful way to look at his illness in The Last Lecture?

There are a few reasons why viewing his cancer as an
"engineering problem" is a helpful analogy; in fact, it can be helpful for dealing with
any serious illness.

Working From a Familiar
Construct
One way to grasp a new and difficult concept or learn
something entirely new is to relate it to something familiar - go from the known to the
unknown.  This is used in teaching; we work from something you already know and move
towards adding new information or branching to unrelated but similar concepts to aid in
teaching the new concept.    

Many people use a gardening analogy to
deal with cancer - pruning and weeding in the garden is analogous to some of the
treatments for cancer such as surgery and radiation.  Chemotherapy is like spreading a
spray to kill insects or weeds but can cause some harm to the grass or flowers. 
Sometimes the garden is so infested, people will take a radical approach to killing off
a lot of it in order to wipe out the infestation.  

Randy's expertise
in engineering provided him with a similar construct to manage his disease.  The human
body and mind are sometimes described as an incredible engineering feat.  The spread of
disease can be viewed more dispassionately if one thinks of the internal body and organs
as a computer motherboard, for example, with the body's lymphatic system as the buses
that transport bits and byes between the motherboard and its peripherals (body's
organs).  Viewing his disease and its progression into different parts of his body this
way could have helped Randy both understand and deal with
it.

Distancing Oneself from the
Illness
A major illness can take a severe emotional toll on
anyone.  Yet there are important decisions that must be made regarding treatment
options, one's living situation, family members, etc.  Our brains are capable of
"compartmentalizing" information, to some degree, so we can face devastating news yet
continue to function.  Randy's use of an engineering problem quite probably helped him
deal with the disease more dispassionately so he could make more effective decisions. 
He made many choices regarding his treatment, each of which came with its own side
effects and potential to ensure either a longer life or a more humane and dignified end
of life.  You'll see that, after he learned that the disease had progressed to a more
severe stage, Randy moved his family to Chesapeake so they'd be closer to his wife's
family.  

Find What Works for
You
This is not to say that emotions aren't always present even
if they've been pushed into the background.  But, using familiar constructs to
understand the disease can also help someone push those emotions into the background. 
This dual approach can help someone adjust to a difficult situation, learn more about it
so they make better decisions, enjoy what remaining time they do have with family and
friends, and, as Randy chose, help others in a similar
situation.

Did anyone watch "Young Frankenstein" and "Frankenstein by Mary Shelly" movies?? cuz i'm so confused about their story is it the same or not?...

I have watched both movies recently as I just attended a
teacher's training at a science academy on Frankenstein. The Gene
Wilder movie is actually a spoof of the book by Mary Shelly.  He is a nutty kind of
Victor Frankenstein who has an odd housekeeper and a hunchback for an assistant.  He has
a finance that is pretty bossy and dominating.  He hires an attractive assistant and
cheats on his girlfriend with her.

The creation is also
silly and Victor teaches him to sing and dance to the song "Puttin’ on the Ritz."  When
the creature sees fire he freaks and causes an uproar.  The townspeople go after him to
kill him, but everything works out.  In the end the creature ends up with Frankenstein's
fiancé and Victor gets to be with his assistant who makes him much
happier.

Mary Shelly's book
Frankenstein was much better represented in a film in which Robert Dinero
stars as the creature.  It is based on the book and does a much better job of
interpreting the book.

What are the linguistic characteristics of English newspaper headlines?their grammar and vocabulary

Normally, headline writers follow the basics
below:

1.  They omit articles
(a, an, the) in order to save space but also to attract the reader's attention to the
most significant words.

2. Headlines use
strong active verbs, avoiding "be" verbs and passive voice
which slow down fluidity and again take up too much space with very little substance. 
An example is: "Man Awakens To Horrific Smell!"  instead of, "A man is awakened by a
horrific smell!"

3.  Unusual
Capitalization--normally each word in a headline is capitalized
(sometimes the headline is even in all caps).  So, even though Standard English does not
call for the capitalization of prepositions in titles, headlines capitalize them for
uniformity purposes.

4.  Many times, headlines
omit end punctuation or punctuation of any
kind.

What sport has Curley “done quite a bit in”?

Curley has "done quite a bit in" boxing.  He has done a
great deal of boxing.  This is actually important in the
book.

Curley's ability to box sort of feeds in to his
personality.  He is a very arrogant and aggressive person.  He likes to pick on people
with a combination of his boxing ability and the fact that his father owns the ranch. 
These allow him not to have to worry about people beating him
up.

This arrogance gets him in trouble when he goes after
Lennie and gets his hand crushed.

Explore the topic/theme of childhood and growing up and give two quotes in To Kill a Mockingbird.

The first theme that I can think of relates to the wisdom
of children, particularly Scout's wisdom when she confronts the lynch mob facing down
her father at the steps of the jail. Scout is only a child, but her innocence is changed
to an extent this summer as she sees the way that grown-ups behave. However, she retains
enough childlike simplicity to make these men reconsider, for the moment, their actions.
Atticus states in chapter 16:

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So it took an eight-year-old child to bring 'em
to their senses.... That proves something - that a gang of wild animals can be stopped,
simply because they're still human.  Hmp, maybe we need a police force of
children.

Another
moment in the piece that also relates to the wisdom of children is when Atticus
emphasizes the imporyance of telling them the truth. He shelters Scout and Jem by
protecting them, but he also is honest with them, for children have the wisdom to tell
when adults are lying. He states in chapter
9:

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When a child asks you something, answer him, for
goodness' sake.  But don't make a production of it.  Children are children, but they can
spot an evasion quicker than adults, and evasion simply muddles
'em

In "The Raven", which rhyming words are repeated often troughout the poem, and which two lines in each stanza do not contain end rhyme?rhyme

Rhyming
words:

• Rapping, tapping,
  napping


• Lenore, Nevermore, bore, yore, o'er, explore,
  before, door...

The 1st and 3rd lines or the a
and c lines regularly do not have end rhyme because they generally have internal rhyme.
This means there is a word within the line that rhymes with the end
word.

The effect of the rhyme scheme in this poem is a
fantastic rhythm that helps move the reader from stanza to stanza with intensifying mood
and even plot development.

What brave thing does Atticus do in Chapter 10?? Why are Scout and Jem shocked??

What Atticus does in this chapter that is brave is he
shoots a mad dog, Tim Johnson.  This may not sound all that brave, but it is brave for
two reasons:

• First, Atticus hasn't held a gun in
  years.  He used to be a great shot, but who knows if he still
  is?


• Second, and related to that, he has to hit the dog. 
  Otherwise, it might get away and hurt people.  And if he misses, the bullet might hit
  someone since he has to shoot right there in
  town.

The kids are shocked because Atticus has
never shown any desire to do anything "manly" like shooting and they have wished that he
would.